Waking up with Sapir-Whorf

In the spirit of the day, frequent Neuroanthropology contributor Paul Mason canvased his extensive Facebook network to learn how people around the world heard the cock’s crow in the morning. He’s rendered all of the onomatopoeia into a handy list, with the time of day that the sun will come up in each locale rendered into a uniform Eastern Standard Time. So, around the world, this is what people think they hear when a rooster crows… [Greg]

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis as an expression of the revolution of the earth around the sun on 1 April, 2011AD, in the Universe year: 13.75 billion ± 110 million.

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Greg Downey is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Macquarie University in Sydney. A cultural anthropologist by training, neuroanthropologist by passion, Greg studies sport and dance as methods for perceptual, neurological, motor and phenotypic change. You can follow Greg @GregDowney1

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Neuroanthropology. Sometimes it’s straight-up neuroscience, sometimes it’s all anthropology, most of the time it’s somewhere in the middle. Greg is the cultural guy, now interested in bio stuff. Daniel is the bio guy, now interested in cultural stuff. Or, to say it differently, Greg does capoiera, mixed martial arts, and rugby. Daniel does alcohol, drugs, and video games. Two very different styles of recreation.